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‘We are human beings not animals,’ detention centre inquest told
An employee walks past cell doors in a wing of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre

A FRIEND of a Polish migrant who took his own life in a British detention centre has told an inquest “we are human beings not animals.”

Marcin Malicki, who was unable to appear in court after the Home Office deported him, desperately tried to rescue fellow detainee Marcin Gwozdzinski in September 2017.

The pair were held together at the privately run Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport.

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